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I have conflicting feelings towards this. I thought the story was fascinating with lots of tension. But the writing style was too scientific for me. There were a lot of in depth explanations that I couldn‘t understand and felt that I didn‘t need to understand to enjoy the story. Still I would give this a “pick”.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl #2025reads #ClassicLSFBC @RamsFan1963 #sciencefiction

reading this for the second time this year (and making up for all the years this has been on my TBR).

This isn't the opening lines of MC but it is the first line of one of my favourite stories from here. This made me laugh, and is a really nice contrast to the story about Ylla.

#Harvest 🧑‍🚀🥔❤️

#ARichLife 🤎🍂🧦🧸📜☕️

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Le splurge.

A guy who cannot figure out They/them pronouns and who is expected to marry a politician he is on the other side of the aisle from (one who is advocating for MCs kind to be disfigured because they are physically strong??)

This isn't working for me. Not far enough a long for an actual review, I just feel gross reading it. Also I am 3.5 hours in and I don't think we have met a woman with a name.

I was oddly reluctant to pick up this book, I think because it had been so hyped up, I was afraid it could never live up to those expectations.

I. Was. WRONG.

Weir manages to weave together threads of scientific ingenuity and humor with the main character's indomitable will to survive, and creates a story unlike any other I've come across so far.

#Time/SpaceTraveler
#CharacterCharm

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I couldn‘t resist sharing my new Kindle case. I think Space Cat would approve. 😺🪐🛸 #kindlepaperwhite

(1951) A recent conversation with a friend has me thinking about the "juvenile" science fiction that was available when I was in the target audience, and brought to mind this gem, of which I owned a copy back in the day, about a strong-minded aunty who comes upon a mission to Mars in her cow pasture and accidentally makes the trip. This has not held up well, but Miss Pickerell is still a hoot and I'm giving it a thumbs-up from elementary-school me

Husband was telling me initially this was serialized online, which might have been more fun.

Basically the MC is MacGyver every chapter, which is fine but it isn‘t balanced out with enough of a human psychological/emotional storyline. I had to gloss over all of the technical math & science stuff every time he had to fix something, of which there is A LOT. I would have bailed had it not been for a bookclub.

But, the humor is first rate! 👍🏾